Cr*p total for the day reached already!

[Gem Genie]

Yes, I have probably got out of the bed the wrong side today but even so....

Just been listening to Sam and Mikhail ramble on about Northern Nights flannel and how it is so superior to anything else you can buy. I am sick of the presenters comparing their flannel to the old itchy stuff of the 1960's etc. Susie even says sometimes that the stuff of byegone days was actually nylon.

Tosh! My Mum, God rest her always put flannelette sheets on my bed in the winter when I was in junior school. Lovely candy stripe they were and cosy and warm too, nothing itchy about them. Yes, they may have been thinner in quality than some of the modern ones but they were certainly not nylon. I think Susie is getting confused with those old brushed nylon sheet sets which were all the rage once. I remember my Mum tried those out too but we were forever getting out toenails caught in them so she soon relegated them to the back of the airing cupboard.

I have some of the NN flannel sets and I like them but they are not the best I own. In fact my warmest flannel are from Dunelm Mill and the quality is exceptional and cheaper than NN anyday. I was pleased to get them too as they do the deep fitted sheets, duvet covers and pillowcases and it is possible to mix and match. I have never come across such thick quality flannel anywhere else.

So...for the moment.....rant over but please NN, stop knocking the flannelette of the 60's. The only difference is that we now have duvets whereas in those days we were all still using sheets and blankets.

 

[Brissles]

AND hot water bottles because there was no central heating, and because ice would form on the INSIDE of the windows - no double glazing either !!!!!

 

[BurlyBeaR]

My mum still has flannel from when I was a kid. I asked her if she'd like some new stuff and she just looked at me puzzled and said "what for?".
Different attitude altogether.

 

[Gem Genie]

Those old sheets of Mums were eventually cut up and used as cot sheets for my little ones. It wasn't a matter of make do and mend but just common sense really. Why throw something out just because they had gone a little threadbare in the middle?

We live in a throwaway society today and it drives me mad. I think we all need to tighten our belts.

 

[silversequin]

I had some of those candy striped sheets when I was little and my lovely mum made me a flanel nightie with pink embroidery on it. What with that, my hot water bottle, my teddy and my latest Narnia book I was alll snuggly and contented at bedtime!!

I have been looking at the flannel sheets in Dunelm and think I will give them a try this Winter, especiallly if we are in for another very cold one.

 

[WildRose]

Those old sheets of Mums were eventually cut up and used as cot sheets for my little ones. It wasn't a matter of make do and mend but just common sense really. Why throw something out just because they had gone a little threadbare in the middle?

We live in a throwaway society today and it drives me mad. I think we all need to tighten our belts.

I wonder if it has something to do with the fact that a lot of people have so little time these days? By the time I get home and cook clean up supervise homework and all the other things I/we have to deal with I am lucky to get to sit down before 10pm. I would hate to sit there and make do or mend to amend items. For me, simply buy new means I can spend more time doing other things.

 

[Frazzled]

I don't use flannelette sheets but I do look forward to snuggling down in them when making wintertime visits to my sister in North Wales! :mysmilie_462:

 

[Loveinamist]

I have two sets of the Evelyn NN shown today and are good quality but need to be ironed, even though I bannister dry bedding and creases fall out, not with Evelyn!

 

[BusyMum]

another Dunelm fan here - I've never bought anything of NN so I can't compare, but Dunelm's stuff is perfectly fine for me! How I remember Brentford nylons and getting toenails caught up! And ice on the INSIDE of the window when I was a kid - Health & Safety would have a fit but I remember Dad leaving us a hurricane lamp on in the bedroom all night! No carpeted bedrooms for us then..some lovely cold lino to drop your feet onto of a cold morning! But we didn't think we were hard done by, we didn't know any different...anyway, going off at a tangent (what's new?) but basically agree with your post Gem Genie!

 

[Frazzled]

Those old sheets of Mums were eventually cut up and used as cot sheets for my little ones. It wasn't a matter of make do and mend but just common sense really. Why throw something out just because they had gone a little threadbare in the middle?

We live in a throwaway society today and it drives me mad. I think we all need to tighten our belts.

You've reminded me my gran use to cut threadbare sheets in half and sew the edges together to get more use out them. Use to hate laying on the seam down the middle! The good old days eh?

 

[fairynuff]

Oh yes my gran used to do 'sides to middle' with worn sheets too! We lived in her house till I was 4, no bathroom, outside lavvy at the bottom of the yard, one sink with a cold tap in the kitchen for washing .Maybe the winters were colder then but I too remember ice inside the bedroom windows and going to bed with a stone hot water bottle wrapped in an old towel and my grandad's army greatcoat on top of the eiderdown to keep me warm! The younguns don't know they're born these days!

 

[Frazzled]

Oh yes my gran used to do 'sides to middle' with worn sheets too! We lived in her house till I was 4, no bathroom, outside lavvy at the bottom of the yard, one sink with a cold tap in the kitchen for washing .Maybe the winters were colder then but I too remember ice inside the bedroom windows and going to bed with a stone hot water bottle wrapped in an old towel and my grandad's army greatcoat on top of the eiderdown to keep me warm! The younguns don't know they're born these days!

I was 12 when the bathroom and indoor loo arrived! Prior to that the tin bath in the kitchen, one lot of water everybody shared!! Once a fortnight a trip to the local swimming pool where they had proper baths with lashings of hot water - what a giggle now!

 

[argeybargey]

I 'ad the 'ump a bit today but you've all made me larf again with those memories. Blimey - Brentford Nylons <a href="http://plugin.smileycentral.com/http%253A%252F%252Fwww.smileycentral.com%252F%253Fpartner%253DZSzeb008%255FZNxpt484YYGB%2526i%253D36%252F36%255F11%255F23%2526feat%253Dprof/page.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://smileys.smileycentral.com/cat/36/36_11_23.gif" alt="SmileyCentral.com" border="0"><img border="0" src="http://plugin.smileycentral.com/http%253A%252F%252Fimgfarm%252Ecom%252Fimages%252Fnocache%252Ftr%252Ffw%252Fsmiley%252Fsocial%252Egif%253Fi%253D36%252F36_11_23%2526uiv%253D3.0/image.gif"></a>. If they'd been around in Frankenstein's time, they'd have saved him a lot of work. xxxxxxxxxxx

 

[Silver Fox]

remember the brushed nylon sheets & pillowcases---but at least you could be sure the sparks would fly in your bed!

 

[ERICS MUM]

AND hot water bottles because there was no central heating, and because ice would form on the INSIDE of the windows - no double glazing either !!!!!

Oh I remember those days, and that was the 1960's for us. We had victorian sash windows and they rattled in the wind! Mum bought some bright yellow nylon sheets and pillowcases from Brentford Nylons and I remember the flashes of blue static as I turned over in the middle of the night. We also had candlewick bedspreads.

 

[delh]

Cant beat Dunelm for bedding thier high thread cotton sheets are wonderful. My mum used to do the middel to side thing in the 70's and i remember Brentford nylons mum had a dressing gown from there that lasted years and candlewick bedspreads they were so cosy

 

[daydreamer]

:grin: I remember nylon fitted sheets...get in the bed at one end and almost slide out the other.

daydreamer.